Thread: Kobo Desktop no longer available for Windows XP
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Old 01-01-2015, 08:56 PM   #28
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Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
And my similarly-aged laptop runs Archlinux with Mint's Cinnamon desktop and likewise works perfectly, so it is not obsolete. But it wouldn't run Windows 8 very well, not on 2 GB of RAM, and with HD Integrated Graphics (no dedicated GPU) I strongly suspect it is old enough to fail the compatibility test...

Windows 8 is not some magical gold standard, any linux distro will remain compatible on modern versions with much older hardware than Windows 8 (and certainly more than Windows 7).

But I imagine that is all irrelevant, as you cannot run Kobo Desktop on linux anyway...
Yes you can run some version Linux on such old hardware. But you cannot run software that's been compiled to need newer hardware such as Qt5.
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